CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE KHATIM REZA ORAL ORDER

3 17-01-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P for the State.

2. The petitioner seeks bail in connection with Krityanand Nagar P.S. Case No. 148 of 2018 dated 09.05.2018 registered for the offence punishable under Sections 392 and 411 of the Indian Penal Code .

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that the informant is the driver of Scorpio bearing Registration No. JH 10V0281 and owner of the aforesaid vehicle is Sataypal Singh of District- Dhanbad, Jharkhand. It is stated that on 08.05.2018, owner of the vehicle informed the informant that three persons hired his vehicle from Dhanbad to Purnea and on the instruction of the owner, the informant in the next morning at about 07:00 Α.Μ. proceeded from Dhanbad to Rupauli (Purnea) and three persons boarded in the said vehicle. On the basis of conversation in between each other, the informant came to know the names of the aforesaid persons as Raja Irshad, Md. Jamal and Chhotu. At about 09:00 P.M., the informant reached at Kajha Chawk from where he reached near August Nagar, Purnea at about 09:30 P.M., where the aforesaid persons got the informant down from the